If you have a website... *PSA*

[rivermobster]

Keep your eye on it over the next few weeks. WordPress 6.4 is being pushed out and it's breaking a whole bunch of sites!

Elementor and Oxygen are the two page builders being mainly affected, but as it rolls out even more, their could be other page builders affected.

I use Site Origin, and so far, everything is looking good.

Stupid WordPress.

 

[jetboatperformance]

Hmmmm Should I be concerned Oh web guru ?

 

[JBZ]

I use Elementor
I havnt had any issues as of yet.
Elementor has a banner on the dashboard asking for any issues so they can come up with a fix.

 

[rivermobster]

Hmmmm Should I be concerned Oh web guru ?

Negative ghost rider.

 

[rivermobster]

I use Elementor
I havnt had any issues as of yet.
Elementor has a banner on the dashboard asking for any issues so they can come up with a fix.

No surprise there. Elementor has been blasted with hacks this year.

They seem to be staying on top of it though. Make sure you keep your site updated!

 

[25Elmn8r]

We've been running 6.4 for a little bit with no issues. About to push 6.4.1 to my dev site to make sure it's good to go before I push it to production.

 

[rivermobster]

We've been running 6.4 for a little bit with no issues. About to push 6.4.1 to my dev site to make sure it's good to go before I push it to production.

Yeah. 6.4.1 is supposed to be the fix for plugins not updating.

How is WordPress pushing out crap like this lately???

 

[25Elmn8r]

Yeah. 6.4.1 is supposed to be the fix for plugins not updating.

How is WordPress pushing out crap like this lately???

Seems to be the norm with anything anymore. I've had a band-aid in place for the last 9 weeks in our Citrix environment waiting on them to admit it is their issue and a patch to be released.

 

[rivermobster]

Seems to be the norm with anything anymore. I've had a band-aid in place for the last 9 weeks in our Citrix environment waiting on them to admit it is their issue and a patch to be released.

Give Site Origin a try. I can tell you their support is first class. I've been using them exclusively for 8 years or so?

SiteOrigin - Free WordPress Themes and Plugins

Download free WordPress themes and plugins.

siteorigin.com

 

[traquer]

Lot of smaller sites are going to Duda. Stupid name but I'm willing to try it. For ecommerce Shopify plus has been treating me alright

 

[rivermobster]

Lot of smaller sites are going to Duda. Stupid name but I'm willing to try it. For ecommerce Shopify plus has been treating me alright

I'll check that out. Thanks.

Shopify is Stupid expensive. You pay even if you don't sell anything, and if you do sell, you pay even more! Hard pass.

 

[OCMerrill]

I run a commodore 64 and I don't have any internet problems but my cassette tapes sometimes don't load my programs.

 

[rivermobster]

I run a commodore 64 and I don't have any internet problems but my cassette tapes sometimes don't load my programs.

Baller.

 

[OCMerrill]

Baller.

Oh 6.4...my bad. I thought this was a Apple thread.

 

[rivermobster]

Oh 6.4...my bad. I thought this was a Apple thread.

The brain wash is strong with this one...

Everything comes back to Apple!

 

[SPYLIFE]

I get an alert on my update screen that suggest I backup the site prior to the Elementor update in many cases. I refrain from doing the update, that warning eventually disappears then I update.

 

[4Waters]

I run a commodore 64 and I don't have any internet problems but my cassette tapes sometimes don't load my programs.

You can always connect it to the internet with one of these

Credit to War Games with Mathew Broderick

 

[JBZ]

I get an alert on my update screen that suggest I backup the site prior to the Elementor update in many cases. I refrain from doing the update, that warning eventually disappears then I update.

You should do a backup prior to updating.
Just in case something goes wrong in the update

 

[rivermobster]

You should do a backup prior to updating.
Just in case something goes wrong in the update

Beat me to it.

My client sites back up two days in a row and once weekly.

Good thing too...

The Glamis vet site went down cause of some donation plug in the client installed. That plugin went in the trash.

Restored from a back up overnight. We didn't loose anything.

*phew*

 

[SPYLIFE]

I use Siteground as the host, they auto backup all the sites daily. Great company if anyone is looking for a host. I broke away from Godaddy on everything about a year ago... They've really gone downhill.

 

[rivermobster]

I use Siteground as the host, they auto backup all the sites daily. Great company if anyone is looking for a host. I broke away from Godaddy on everything about a year ago... They've really gone downhill.

They were Never up hill!

Never heard anything bad about Siteground.

 

[brecht]

The no-code world is kicking off. Instead of full templates it's essentially building blocks of components to piece together a site or even native apps now. Check out weweb.com or webflow.com

I'm one of the lead engineers at xano.com - a backend no-code to build out and scale APIs and databases. Its pretty amazing what you can accomplish these days with very little experience

 

[Cobalt232]

I'm just glad that WP / WooCommerece is finally addressing their inefficient database structure. We currently have 775,000 orders in our Woo store and it is dog slow.

 

[rivermobster]

I'm just glad that WP / WooCommerece is finally addressing their inefficient database structure. We currently have 775,000 orders in our Woo store and it is dog slow.

That is a shit ton of orders.

What are you selling over there??

 

[Cobalt232]

That is a shit ton of orders.

What are you selling over there??

Primarily film processing and scanning. Still a nice niche demand. This is our direct-to-consumer brand https://thedarkroom.com/

 

[rivermobster]

Primarily film processing and scanning. Still a nice niche demand. This is our direct-to-consumer brand https://thedarkroom.com/

Bad azz!

I didn't know anyone even did that stuff anymore. Very cool.